About
I am Associate Professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. I research and teach at the intersections of cultural and media studies, contemporary US literature, and the digital humanities. My book is Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), which won the 2021 Book Prize for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. I was also a co-director of WhatEvery1Says, a project that employed machine learning techniques to examine contemporary public discourse about the humanities on a large scale. I've written recently about BookTok and speed reading, and I'm currently working on projects about novelistic length and histories of not reading.